HMHS
GARTH CASTLE was the sucessor to SS
Garth Castle (1880). Built by Barclay Curle & Company
Glasgow, Yard No 478, in 1910 for the Union-Castle Mail Steamship
Company. She was 7,612 gross tonnes, 452 feet 6 inches by
54 feet 3 inches, twin screen, 2 x Quadruple Expansion, 647
Nautical Horsepower and 13 knots. She became a Naval Hospital
Ship. YA.2,
commissioned on 4th November 1914 as a hospital ship and could
carry approximately 250 casualties. On 24th June 1917, during
a fleet inspection, the surgeons and nursing staff were presented
to H.M. King George V. She took part in the North Russian
Expeditionary Force, 1918-1919. She was broken up in 1939.